The prefix length of the internal IP address used for
wildcarding. A value of 0 indicates a full wildcard;
in this case, the value of midcomRuleInternalIpAddr is
irrelevant. If midcomRuleInternalIpVersion has a value
of ipv4(1), then a value > 31 indicates no wildcarding
at all. If midcomRuleInternalIpVersion has a value
of ipv4(2), then a value > 127 indicates no wildcarding
at all. A MIDCOM-MIB implementation that does not
support IP address wildcarding MUST implement this object
as read-only with a value of 128. A MIDCOM that does
not support wildcarding based on prefix length MAY
restrict allowed values for this object to 0 and 128.
This object is used as input to a request for establishing
a policy rule as well as for indicating the properties of
an established policy rule.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has the
value newEntry(1) or setting(2), then this object can be
written by a manager in order to specify the prefix length
of the internal IP address for which a reserve policy rule
or an enable policy rule is requested to be established.
Writing to this object in any state other than newEntry(1)
or setting(2) will always fail with an 'inconsistentValue'
error.
Note that this error code is SNMP specific. If the MIB
module is used with other protocols than SNMP, errors with
similar semantics specific to those protocols should be
returned.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has the
value reserved(7) or enabled(8), then this object will
have the value which it had before the transition to this
state.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has a
value other than newEntry(1), setting(2), reserved(7), or
enabled(8), then the value of this object is irrelevant.